White papers

Network Applications: Opening up 5G and beyond networks

5GPPP - Software Network Working Group
As part of the 5G-PPP Initiative, the Software Network Working Group prepared this white paper to demystify the concept of the Network Applications. In fact, the Network Application ecosystem is more than the introduction of new vertical applications that have interaction capabilities.
Conferences

End-to-End Inter-domain Transport Network Slice Management Using DLT-enabled Cloud-based SDN Controllers (invited paper)

2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC2023)
This paper discusses the advantages and challenges of multiple architectures that consider the negotiation of inter-domain transport network slices using blockchain technologies. To this end, we present results obtained using cloud-native ETSI TeraFlowSDN controller.
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Towards Assessing Effects of Isolation on Determinism in Multi-Application Scenarios

2022 ACM SIGCOMM - FIRA'22: Workshop on Future of Internet Routing & Addressing
In addition to the already present heterogeneity in the network service and application ecosystem, new challenges come in the form of emerging applications which require deterministic delay performance characteristics that go beyond traditional SLAs.
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End-to-End Interdomain Transport Network Slice Management Using Cloud-based SDN Controllers

2022 27th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and 2022 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC)
In spite of their popularity, developing secure smart contracts remains a challenging task. Existing solutions are either impractical as they do not support many complex real-world contracts or leave the burden to developers for fixing bugs.
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QoS-Aware Inter-Domain Connectivity: Control Plane Design and Operational Considerations

2022 - NOMS 2022 - IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium - FlexNGIA Workshop 2022
Abstract: Scenarios related to 5G and beyond give rise to a high degree of heterogeneity in terms of applications, services, and user expectations as well as more demanding QoS requirements with an end-to-end scope that can cover multiple operator domains.
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TeraFlow: Secured Autonomic Traffic Management for a Tera of SDN Flows

2021 - EuCNC 2021 - European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit
TeraFlow proposes a new type of secure, cloud-native Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller that will radically advance the state-of-the-art in beyond 5G networks by introducing novel micro-services architecture, and provide revolutionary features for both flow management (service layer) an
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Special session paper: “Autonomous Network Management towards 6G. Cloud-Native SDN Network Management for Beyond 5G Networks with TeraFlow”

2021 - EuCNC 2021 - European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit
TeraFlow proposes a novel secured transport Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller based on a microservice architecture. The objective is to foster innovation around SDN controller and evolve them to be suitable for beyond 5G networks.